MORE HORRORS IN THE EASTEND.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 267, 12 November 1888, Page 4

MORE HORRORS IN THE EASTEND.

TWO WOMEN MURDERED ON SUNDAY.

THE SAME FEARFUL MUTILATION.

(Fkom the "Pall Mall Budget," OC'TOiVER 4i'11.)

In the early hour? of .Sunday morning two more .horrible murders were committed in the East-end of London, the victim in both cases belonging to the same unfortunate class. No doubt seems to be entertained by the police that these terrible crimes were the work of the same fiendish hands which committed the outrages which had already made Whitechapel so painfully notorious. The scenes of the two murders just brought to light are within a quarter of an hour's walk of each other, the earlier discovered crime having been committed in a yard in Berner-street, a thoroughfare ouc of the Commercial Road, while the second outrage was perpetrated within the City boundary, in Mitre-square, Aldgabe. In neither case can robbery have been the motive, nor can the deed be set flown as the outcome of any ordinary street brawl. Both have unquestionably been murders deliberately planned, and carried out by the hand of some one who has been no novice to the work : and again it must be added that no reliable clue has yefc been obtained. THE BERNER STREET MURDER. Berner-street is p, narrow, badly-lighted, but tolerably respectable street, turning out of the Commercial-road, a short distance clown on the right-hand side going from Aldeate. It is a streeb mainly consisting of small houses, but which has lately been brightened and embellished by one of the fine new buildings of the London School Board-. Just opposite this is an "International and Educational Club," domiciled in a private house standing at the corner of a gateway leading into a yaid in which are small manufacturing premises and four small houses occupied by Jewish families. The yard gates are usually closed at night, a wicket affording admission to the lodger 3 and others residing in the houses. The club was on .Saturday evening.winding, up the-Jewish holidays by* a lecture on '' Judaism and Socialism." A discussion followed, which carried on the proceedings' to'aboufc half-past twelve, and than followed a general jollification accompanied, aa the neighbours say, by a noiee that would effectually have prevented any cries for he!;) being heard by those around. The mirth however was brought to a sudden and a dreadful stop., The steward of tho club, who lives in one of the small houses in the yard, and had been out with some sort of a market cart, returned home just before one (Sunday morning). He turned into the gateway, when he observed some object lying in his way under the v/ail of the club. Unabie to see clearly who it was, he struck a match and found that it was a woman. He thought at first she was drunk, and went into the club. Some of the members went out with him and struck another light, and were horrified to find the woman's head nearly severed from- her body and blood streaming down the gutter. The police were summoned, and the pcor creaoure wa3 borne to the St. George's deadhouse.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE VICTIM.

The corpse was still warm, and in the opinion of the medical experts, who were promptly summoned to the place, the deed of blood must have been done not many minutes before. The probability seems to be that the murderer was interrupted by the arrival ot the cart, and that, he made his escape unobserved, under the shelter of the darkness, which was almost total at the spot. The effort 3 of the police to trace the murderer have been without result as yet. The body has been identified as that of j\ woman named Elizabeth Stride, who had been living in a common lodging-house in Flower and Dean-street, and had been in the habit of frequenting this neighbourhood.where it appears she-was familiarly known as Long Lizzie. She has a sister liviajj somewHero in Holboro, and her husband, from whom ; ehe has been separated •■somo:-,yeasfy f»

said to be living at Butb, Tho body! when iomd was quite \v«nn, In one i band waaplutehed ;t box of sweets, and at ' her breafc were jfinned two dahlias ; she j was respectably dressed for her class, and j appears bbc about thirty-live yeans ot a,u re. i Her beigfti is oft- sin. and her complexion ' and hairn-e dark. She wore a jiickot made ! of dark Jiagoual cloth,, feather trimmings. I a black skirt, velveteen bodice, crape I bonnet, side - spring boots, and white' stocking Medical ' men were busy in j lninntelj^xamimng the body andonTuesday ! morning:; about eleven Mr Wynne E. Baxter (pened an inquest. The wunmii'a movements have betm braced up to a certain poinb. She left her lodgings in Flower and | Dean-strict, between six and seven o'clock ' on Safcurfuy evening, saying thai, she was I uol.jvoin{j);o meet, anyone in particular. From '■ that honf there is nothing certainly known about he up to the time at which her body, was found, lifeless indeed, but not otherwise mutilated than by the ga?h in the throat, which had severed tho jugular vein and must have caused instantaneous death. THE MITRE SQUARE MURDER. At tin precise moment that the police were gathering about the place of slaughter in Berner-street, another and more horrible shambles was being provided ;or their inspection scarcely half a mile away. Shortly before two'clock Police-Constable Watkius (No. 881), of the City Police, was going round hi beat, when, tunnn.tr his lantern upon tho darkest corner of Mitre-square, Aldgate, he saw the body of v woman, apparently lifeless, in a pool of blood, ife at once blew his whistle, and several persons being attracted to the spot, ho despatched messengers for medical and police aid. Inspector Collardj who was in command at the time at Bishopsgate police-station, but a short distance oil, quickly arrived, followed a few moments after by Mr <j. \Y. Sequdiu, surgeonj of 35, Jewry-street, and Dr. Gordon Brown, the divisional police doctor of Finsbury-circus. Chief Superintendent Major Smith, Superintendent Foster, Inspector McWilliams, and Inspector Collard immediately organized a 'scouting' brigade, to detect and arrest any suspicious looking character, but no one was taken into custody. ' A SHOCKING SIGHT. I In the meantime, Dr. Sequeira and Dr. Gordon Brown made an examination of the body. The fight was a most shocking one. The woman's throat had been cut from the left side, the knife severing; the main artery and other parts of the neck. Blood had flowed freely, both from the neck and body, on the pavement. Apparently, the weapon had been thrust into the upper part of the abdomen and drawn completely down, ripping open the body, and, in addition, both thighs had been cut across. The intestines had been torn from the body, and some of them lodged in the wound on the right side of the neck. The woman was lying on her back, with her head to the south-west corner, and her feet towards the cavriaca way, her clothes being thrown up on to hur chest. Both hands were outstretched by her ?ido. Near where she was lying two or three buttons were picked up, and a small cardboard box containing two pawntickets. The supposition is that her pockets were hastily turned out, either for robbery, or to evade suspicion as to the motive fur the crime. Dr. Brown having taken a pencil sketch of the exact position in which the body was found, at three o'clock it was removed to the City Mortuary, Golden-lane, to await a coroner's inquest. THE VICTIM IDENTIFIED. On Tuesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a labouring man, giving the name of John Kehy, 55, Flowei and Dean street —a common lodging-house — entered tho j Bishonfgato - street, polios - station, und stated jhat he believed that, the woman who had'liferi murdered in Mitre-fiquaie was his " wife." IJe wns taken to the mortuary in Golden-lane, and there identified her us the wooan, to whom he subsequently admitted he was not married, but with whom he had Cohabited for seven years. Keliy, who was considerably affected, spoke quite unreservedly, and gave a full statement as to his otvii movements and those of the illj fated °voman, a3 to whose identity he was quite positive, in this statement ho was borne <iut by the deputy of the lodging-1 house, Frederick Wilson, who knew the poor woman quite well, and .who had ju.-iu ; seen tip body. Kelly, in answer to ques- ; tions, stated that the last time he Haw her— referring to her as Kate™was on Saturday ! afternoon. The last meal ahe had with him ■ was a breakfast which had been obtained by the pledging of his boots for 2s 6d. He was thin asked if he knew the murdered woman's name, and if he could ex- | plain tiie meaning of the initials "T.C." on her arm. lie replied that Thomas Conwaj- was the name of her husband, bufc he could not state whether Con way was dead or alive, or how long, in j the latter case, she had been living away from him. He further stated that ho and the ninrdered woman were " both Londoners/ and that the latter was born at Bermohdsey. They had just returned from hopping at a place about two miles from Ccxheath, in Kent. Ho and "Kate " had, he saidj gone through many hardships together; 'but while she was with him he " would not let her do anything bad." He was asled if he knew whether tho woman had any relatives besides the daughter mentioned, to which lie replied that j "KaWs" sister was living in Thrawlstreot,:iSpitalticlds, with a man who sold farthing books in Liverpool-street.» SLIGHT CLUES. The^ police have made one discovery, whichfhey are of opinion affords a clue tc the direction in which the murderer made hia esraps- On Monday afternoon a portion of ,ap Jpron was found in Goldstein-street, and wpen the body-of the woman found in Mitre-square wassearched, it was discovered that sr)owa3 wearing the upper portion of the apron'tb which the piece found belonged.' It is therefore concluded that tho murderer made his way into Whitechapel. Again: Early this morning a police-con-stable was passing on hie beat in the Whitechapolvoad, when he came upon a blackhandled knife, keen as a razor, and pointed like al'carving-knife. The blade was ten I inchesUonsr, about the length of weapon assumcj! by Dr, Phillips to have been used by thfflHanbnry-street murderer. INQUEST ON THE BERNEII-STHEET VICTIM. Thejsriquesb on the body or Elizabeth Stridei-otherwise "Long Liz "--who was found foully murdered, with her throat cut, in Berrier-streeb, was fixed to commence at the Vestry Hall, Cable-streeb, St. George's-in-the-'East, at eleven o'clock on Monday. Mr Wynne E. Baxter directed the inquiry. Nothing of importance has, howeve*. been elicited'